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Human Rights Based Approach Development Toolkit Chapter 2: Human Rights and their Normative Elements in Development Planning

This chapter of the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) Development Toolkit — a document that
aims to help address the role of human rights in development — looks at the
full spectrum of the rights invoked by HRBA in relation to development, and fleshes out their concrete implications on the work
that development planners undertake.

It also examines how human rights-based approaches to development planning operate in regional and national settings, and maps the multiple factors that affect the implementation of HRBA in development.

It includes diagrams that illustrate the pathway of each particular human right within the developmental infrastructure, with a view to revealing the deep social impacts found at each step of the pathway. The chapter illustrates how rights are not simply abstract principles, but normative mechanisms with profound effects on the way that development is practised on the ground.